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Kottarakkara Assembly constituency

{{Short description|Constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency

| name = Kottarakkara

| type = SLA

| constituency_no = 119

| state = Kerala

| map_image = File:Pulamon Junction in Kottarakara,.jpg

| map_caption = Pulamon Junction in Kottarakara town

| established = 1957

| reservation = None

| electors = 2,00,586 (2016)

| mla = K. N. Balagopal

| party = CPI(M)

| alliance = {{legend2|{{party color|Left Democratic Front (Kerala)}}|LDF|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}

| latest_election_year = 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

| district = Kollam

}}

Kottarakara or Kottarakkara is a legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in Kollam district. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is K N Balagopal of CPI(M).{{cite web |url=http://keralaassembly.org/constitutencies.html |title=CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA |publisher=Kerala Assembly |access-date=2018-04-18}}

Structure

As per the recent changes on Assembly constituency delimitations, Kottarakara Assembly constituency consists of the municipality of Kottarakkara and seven neighbouring panchayaths including Ezhukone, Kareepra, Kulakkada, Mylom, Neduvathoor, Veliyam and Ummannoor.{{cite web |url=http://keralaassembly.org/election/Delimitation.pdf |title=ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT – Kerala |publisher=Kerala Assembly |access-date=2018-04-18}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/kollam.html |title=Constituencies – Kollam District |publisher=Chief Electoral Officer – Kerala |access-date=2018-04-18}}

Electoral history

=Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Elections=

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Winner

!Party

!Vote Margin

!Coalition

1951

|Krishnan Nair

|Socialist

|3,526

|NA{{cite web |url=https://kerala.gov.in/documents/10180/8f8553b5-bcb5-4792-9271-9b6de83ba20b |title=Election to the Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly-1951 and to the Madras Assembly Constituencies in the Malabar Area |page=37 |publisher=Government of Kerala |access-date=2018-10-17 |archive-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021080302/https://kerala.gov.in/documents/10180/8f8553b5-bcb5-4792-9271-9b6de83ba20b |url-status=dead }}

1954

|B. B. Pandarathil

|RSP

|6,586

|LDF{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1954/StatRep_TravCochin_1954.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1954 to the Legislative Assembly of Travancore-Cochin |page=37 |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=2018-10-17}}

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:

class="wikitable sortable"

!Election

!Niyama
Sabha

!Member

!colspan="2"|Party

!Tenure

1957

|1st

|E. Chandrasekharan Nair

|{{Party name with color|Communist Party of India}}

|1957–1960

1960

|2nd

|D. Damodaran Potti

|{{Party name with color|Praja Socialist Party}}

|1960–1965

1967

| rowspan="2" |3rd

|E. Chandrasekharan Nair

|{{Party name with color|Communist Party of India|rowspan=2}}

|1967–1970

1970*

|C. Achutha Menon

|1970

1970

|4th

|Kottara Gopalakrishnan

|{{Party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|1970–1977

1977

|5th

| rowspan="7" |R. Balakrishna Pillai

| {{Party name with color|rowspan=4|Kerala Congress}}

|1977–1980

1980

|6th

|1980–1982

1982

|7th

|1982–1987

1987

|8th

|1987–1991

1991

|9th

|{{Party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|1991–1996

1996

|10th

| {{Party name with color|rowspan=2|Kerala Congress (B)}}

|1996–2001

2001

|11th

|2001–2006

2006

|12th

| rowspan="3" |P. Aisha Potty

| {{Party name with color|rowspan=4|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}

|2006–2011

2011

|13th

|2011–2016

2016

|14th

|2016-2021

2021

|15th

K. N. Balagopal

|Incumbent

*by-election

Election results

Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.

= 2021 =

There were 2,00,587 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.{{Cite web|title=ceo.kerala.gov.in|url=http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/pdf/GE-2021/VoterTurnout2021.pdf}}

{{Election box begin|title=2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottarakkara}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=K. N. Balagopal|votes=68,770|percentage=45.98|change={{decrease}}9.46|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=R. Resmi|votes=57,956|percentage=38.75|change={{increase}}11.64|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Vayakkal Soman|votes=21,223|percentage=14.19|change={{decrease}}1.80|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=574|percentage=0.38|change=|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Mathews K. Lukose|votes=136|percentage=0.09|change=-|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Lal Viswan|votes=103|percentage=0.07|change=}}

{{Election box margin of victory||votes=10,814|percentage=7.23|change={{decrease}}21.10}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=1,49,552|percentage=74.56|change={{decrease}}0.48}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|swing={{decrease}}9.46|}}{{Election box end}}

= 2016 =

There were 2,00,527 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.{{cite web|title=Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3767-kerala-general-legislative-election-2016|website=eci.gov.in}}

{{Election box begin|title=2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottarakkara}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=P. Aisha Potty|votes=83,443|percentage=55.44|change={{increase}}1.55|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Savin Sathyan|votes=40,811|percentage=27.11|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Rajeshwary Rajendran|votes=24,062|percentage=15.99|change={{increase}}11.36|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=742|percentage=0.49|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Madhu B.|votes=491|percentage=0.33|change=-|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=R. Sukumaran|votes=386|percentage=0.26|change={{decrease}}0.40|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Shiv Sena|candidate=Veliyam Shaji|votes=325|percentage=0.22|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Hariprasad|votes=173|percentage=0.11|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Ajaykumar Thankappan|votes=80|percentage=0.05|change=}}{{Election box margin of victory||votes=42,632|percentage=28.33|change={{increase}}13.35}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=1,50,513|percentage=75.04|change={{increase}}0.72}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|swing={{increase}}1.55}}{{Election box end}}

= 2011 =

There were 1,84,97 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.{{cite web|title=Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3763-kerala-2011|access-date=11 March 2020|website=eci.gov.in}}

{{Election box begin|title=2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottarakkara}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=P. Aisha Potty|votes=74,069|percentage=53.89|change=|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Kerala Congress (B)|candidate=N. M. Murali|votes=53,477|percentage=38.91|change=|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Vayakkal Madhu|votes=6,370|percentage=4.63|change=|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Dhaneshlal Panavely|votes=1,063|percentage=0.77|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=P. T. Prasanna Kumar|votes=911|percentage=0.66|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=S. Solomon|votes=773|percentage=0.56|change=-|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Prakash V.|votes=454|percentage=0.33|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Prakash R.|votes=320|percentage=0.23|change=}}

{{Election box margin of victory||votes=20,592|percentage=14.98|change=}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=1,37,437|percentage=74.32|change=}}

{{Election box gain with party link|winner=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|loser=Kerala Congress (B)|swing=}}{{Election box end}}

References

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{{Kerala Assembly Constituencies}}

Category:Assembly constituencies of Kerala

Category:Government of Kollam

Category:Politics of Kollam district

Category:Assembly constituencies in Kollam district

Category:1957 establishments in Kerala

Category:Constituencies established in 1957